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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

HARD FACTS FROM ENGLAND.-At
a recent meeting of the working peo-
pie at Liverpool, Eng, one of the
speakers, Richard Juggins, who was
well received" made the following
statements sin the district of Grad
ley Heath, 5000 women worked with
the hammer in the FORCES and the
neutrality-suspicious. which was not fit
for women to be employed at. This
labor was principally chain making
and bolt making; that in these hot
workshops they work side by side
with men and boys. At this labor
they were able to earn but from three
to four shiIlings (Eng.) per week,
and put in long hours at that. On
piece work, the women made chains
for a penny a link. Mems wages
were but little better. If they work.
ed, they starved, so small was their
pay. In that district there were 5000
workshops.
These statements look strange to
American eyes, but, to the minds of
many, thither are we drifting in pro-
portion as our views are becoming lax
in relation to our American system of
protection, under which we have al
ways prospered. In view Of such
facts, would it be wisdom to abandon
our system and engage in the expert
ment of free trade?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
TEMPERANCE Text Books.

We take the liberty of publishing the
following extract from letter received
from Hon. W. P. Dillingham;, men,
Der of the State Text Book Commits
sion, which, in view of recent discus
sions, will be found of interest to our
readers.
RepIving to your note of a late date,
I would say, that when the regulations
concerning the distribution of temper
ance textbooks were prepared it was not
considered by the commission that there
would be any contest between the SUI
nerintendents and school district clerks
concerning the division of labor connect
ed with such distribution, but the thought
entertained, and which, to my mind,
ia expressed in the regulations, was
that the Superintendents were to see
that the books were delivered to- the
clerks. The terms of the law seems also
TO place the responsibility upon them.
The commission was authorized to pre-
scribe regulations under which such books
we've to be furnished to the pupils by the
Tolcn Superintendent. We make use of
district clerks as means to prevent the
loss of books. OF course Superintend-
ents should be compensated for the addi-
tional labor, and if the law does not now
make provision for 1t, the next Legisla-
ture will probably place matters upon
better basis. L spent, as commissioner,
two or three weeks time, a good deal OF
it away from home, for which was en-
titled to SO per day for not exceeding
three days. Hope the Superintendent
will be reasonable in their action and
trust to the sense of justice of the next
General Assembly to make the matter
right
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

A political earthquake shook up
Rhode Island last week, when the
Democrats elected their entire state
ticket for the first time in thirty-five
years. Seventeen assembly districts
failed to elect, and on Saturday tried
it again, this time giving the Legis-
lature to the Democrats. We believe
it now stands, Senate, 19 Republicans
and Is Democrats; House, AZ Repub-
lieans and Sc Democrats. The result
was brought about by disaffection in
the Republican ranks, aided greatly
BY the Providence Journal which
refused to support the Republican
ticket. OF course Democratic papers
will make a great hurrah about
the result, but we guess Little Rhody
will be found in the Republican fold
next year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
BOSTON, MARKET.

BOSTON, April I'm, 1881.
FLOUR.-The flour market is frmer and little
| ADVANCE. Quotations. Fine, $235d 2.s5; super
1886 a3.25; extras and seconds, S394.lO
Michigan stone, $4.I0d4 10; winter wheat
straight and rollers, $4.2Oa4.5O; winter patents
81: 70 a5.25i spring patents, $4.9OG5.4O; bakers
old, 81. 9OG4.65.
BUTTER.-The Butter market continues easy
Choice northern and western Creameries in job
lots, ,a35c; round lots, extra western, 30d3Ic
extra northern 30d3O &c; extra 1rsts, 25d
=Sc. good Junes, l7dl9c.; fair to good ISd2Oc
extra northern diaries, 23d24c.; eastern cream.
cries, 2602Sc. fine Iowa factory ladies, 2Id22
cents; imitation creamery, 2lG23c:. bakers
butter and old, l0Gl5c.
EGGs.-Eggs bear uncertain position
Present quotations are Cape and nearby, 100 zoe
extra easterns, l5d15 l2c.; eastern firss, IL 10
Gle northernl4 a IA l,2c; southern l5c; western,
4Gl4 l-2, Island and New Brunswick, 10 cents
lined, l3d l4c.; held, sell for 2d3c lower prices.
POTATOEs.-The market for potatoes is good
Extra Maine and New Brunswick, 81 90 per Dbl
Houlton rose, 20 cents p bu.; hebrons, 10 cents
rose and hebrOns, IS cents; New York rose, 63
G65c; hobrons, 63a65c; northern burbanks, 65G
7Oc.; Maine, 65c.; eastern prolitics, 65G70c.
BEANs.-On beans the market is very firm
and trade good at the following quotations: Yer
mont small handpicked pea, $l.75Gl.S5; New
York small pea, 81 659l.75; large pea, 81 seq
30; medium, 3 500 l60; yellow eye improved,
$l.50G l.60; red kidney, 1.1O9l.SO.
POULTRY.-The request for poultry is better
western turkeys bring Is cents, and choice lots of
western chickens bring 10 cents.
MEAL.-The market for meal is better with
quotations at. Export cornmeal, s.. 25d23O; do
nestle, $4,000 81; choice graduated, So. l0d3.25
P bag, Sl031l.05 Oatmeal: ground, $5d5 % ;
cut, S5.50a6.25. Rye is quiet at 6Oa64c. Rye
flour is quoted at So .l25G3. so y Dbl.
CoRN.-COrn market is lettering at present.
Quotations are: High mixed, SO l2c; steamer
yellow, y a5S Lee; steamer mixed, 55d52 l2c; no
grade, 50d5l IA.
OATs.-In oats the market steady and
quotations are slightly changed: No. white
and barley oats, 42d43 c.; fancy clipped oats,
AZ 1898 l-2c; No. white, 4Oa4Ol-2c; No.3 white,
SO 1-2d39c: No. l mixed, IS 1898 Lee: No. 2
mixed, 37d3S &c.
Hay, STRAW, &C.-The hay market is quiet at
present with few changes. Straw IS also quiet.
Prices: Choice prime hay, $l65OdI7.5O; fair
to good, $l5. 50al6; western, 4Gl4.5O; eastern
fine, $l2dl3.50; poor to ordinary, $l0dl3; east,
swale, and oat straw, S9GlO; Rye straw, l4al4.5O;
winter bran, l950G20 ;sprng 1918 so ;sack, 30
d2l; middings, 2OG23; prime cotton seed meal,
spot, 25.75G26.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

NITRO GLYCERINE EXPLOsION.-The
powder works at Pittsburgh were
blown up on Sunday afternoon, with
800 pounds of nitro-glycerine-the first
explosion occurred at 2.15, the second
about seven minutes later. The shock
was most terrific one and shook every
thing for miles around. The building
was located on the bank of the river
and the ice was covered with debris.
A swath some twenty or thirty feet
wide was cut through the pine trees
east of the building for a distance of
some thirty rods. The trees were strip
ped bare of foliage and limbs. The
effects of the explosion were plainly
visible about Plattsburgh, in the brok-
en- windows, and an occasional shat
tered chimney.
There is no known cause for the eX-
plosion. There have been many rumors
but nothing authenticated. One report
says that rife shot was heard in the
vicinity just previous to the first explo-
sion. Mr.. FOss, the manager, is of the
opinion that something of the kind
must have occurred to occasion the ex-
plosiOn, as the glycerine never would
have exploded had it not been tempered
with. Luckily nobody was hurt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
Commercial Fertilizers.

The following table, which has just
been prepared by Prof. W. W. Cooke,
Director of the State Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station, contains the analy-
sis of the leading brands sold by each
of the companies, with one exception,
that license more than one brand in
this State. These six brands COM
bined, represent more than two-thirds
of all the fertilizers sold in Vermont.
The values used in calculating the
valuation are those decided upon for
1887 by the experiment station of
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
Jersey, viz. &: Nitrogen, II IL cents
per pound; pbosphoric acid soluble in
water, s cents; reverted phosphoric
acid, Z 1-2 cents insoluble phosphor-
ic acid, cents, and potash 4 IA cts.
per pound.
These analyses were all made from
goods brought into the State since
January l, 1887, and each is the av-
erage of three analyses made from
three samples drawn in three different
parts of the State, except the first,
which is the average of two samples.
The samples we're in each case drawn
either by the Director himself or by
some one authorized by him. 1t will
thus be seen that they may be taken
to fairly represent the goods of each
brand now on sale.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

G.. C.Woolworth of Albany, head
of the concern that makes postal
cards for the government, says that
in the factory in Caselton, Penn, they
manufacture between two and three
tons a day the year around. The
largest order they ever filled for one
city was 100000 cards. or about
II tons of paper, for New York.
Boston uses about 100000 cards a
month. Chicago comes next with
about 100000 cards in the same
period. There are 450, 0O0,0 900 pos
tai cards manufactured annually. Two
cent postage did not lessen the use of
postal cards, but checked the growth
of their use for some little time.
The check has been overcome, and
the public are using more and more
postal cards every day.
A family of Florida natives recent
Iy passed through Gainesville, four of
whom, boys FROM 6 to 10 years old,
were almost exactly the same size and
weight. The father explained that
where they came from the chills and
fever were so bad that the children
stopped growing when they were
about years old.
Mrs. Mary Cunningham of Bucks
port, Me-, is a strong anti-tobacconist.
She used the weed for sixty-three
years, but since she stopped, not long
ago, she feels like girl again, and
she wishes that she had stopped long
ago.
A visitor to the penitentiary al
GAINESVILLE, o., while casually looking
through the institution last week, dis
covered in one of the prisoners {
brother of mis- who had run away from
home at the age of Z years, and wa:
supposed by the family to have beer
drowned.
John Gee, of Fitchburg, offered t.
bet half bushel of apples that whel
the Bunker Hill monument fell i
would fall north. Henry Oaks tool
the bet, saying it would fall south
George Farrar, without understand
ing the nature of the bet, brought il
the apples, with the promise tina
he should be paid when the bet wa
decided. He now sees the point anC
waxeth wroth, but will wait for al
earthquake.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
STATE ITEM s,

Senator Morrill, has just returned
from Florida, and looks and feels bet
ter than for years past.
Judge Powers was one of the pleas
ATTEST, as we'll as one of the finest and
most profound judges that ever presid-
ed over the court Of Windham county.
-Belloa0s Falls Times.
The Governor has appointed James
Guy Wilson, of Bethel, son of Hon.
]. j. Wilson and recent graduate of
Dartmouth, to set out and establish
true meridian lines in this State, under
the act of 1886.
Colonel Woodbury's leasing of sew
eral acres on the line of the horse
cars, about equally distant between
Burlington and Winooski, which he
proposes fitting up for q base ball
ground and other sports, has given
the base ball element new jog. The
colonel will surround it with high
fence, build grand stand with ample
standing capacity, and there will also
be band-stand aud everything in
first-class shape.
AT Cuttingsville, the other day,
Station Agent Foster, of the Central
Vermont road was standing on the
platform of the railroad station in
front of the door, when he heard the
report of rifle, and in a second a
bullet pierced the door hardly two
inches from his head. Immediately
another bullet struck the building
about three feet from him. In few
minutes two boys appeared on the
scene and remarked that they were
shooting at mark, being stationed
at point half mile from the sta
ton,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

VERMONT CATTLE CONFESSIONAL
car load Of cattle shipped from Ben
nington county to Boston was found
to contain a calf afflicted with pleuro-
pneumonia, and the Massachusetts
cattle commission accordingly notified
Gov. Ormsbee of the fact. In view
of this fact, as well as the presence
of the disease just across the State
line from Bennington county, the Gov
ernor appointed commission consist
ing of Col. John B. Mead, of Ran
dolph; Z. N. Bissell, of Shoreham !;
and L. A. Drew, of Burlington. The
commissioners were met by the Gov
ernor at Middlebury last week, when
they received their credentials. The
commissioners organized by the cleo
ton OF Col. Mead as chairman. Gov.
Ormsbee stated that he had been
flooded with letters from drovers and
others in relation TO the matter, and
he expressed to the commission the
necessity of taking prompt and Wig
orous measures TO stamp out every
vestige of the disease in the State.
AS the shipping of cattle is one of the
most important industries, the quar-
antine will result in serious loss unless
it can be abolished in a short time.
Mr.. Drew will go to Bennington to-
day to investigate as to the presence
of the disease in that county.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

There are many people well fitted
for the best society but for ignorance
of points of table etiquette, which,
though trlfes in themselves, are, on
the whole, of infinite Importance. For
instance, where these requirements are
not known, if a general cessation of
conversation should suddenly occur
upon serving the soup, would there be
silence in the place? Not at all; the
gap would be filled with a continuous
bubbling sound from the mouth of
some unlucky wight whose mother
never taught him to take soup prop
erly. A little instruction and obser-
walton of the table manners of the
bred, enable one to overcome failings
like these.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
The New Interstate Law.

A special dispatch to the Boston
Journal from st. Adams, says: Pres
ident Smith, of the Central Vermont
railroad saws that the officers and en-
ploves of the company were early in
structed to conform in every particu-
lar to tue spirit as well as to the let
ter of the law. "Most of the annual
passes for 1887 have been returned
to headquarters by the persons who
held them, but quite number of an
nuals were collected on the trains.
Our conductors report collecting fares
from the railroad commissions, from
directors of roads in the Central Yer
mont system and from government
and State officials and newspaper men
whose passes had expired. Our rule
relating to passes is an iron-clad one.
The management, however, has re-
issued to the railroad commissioners
and the various State officers, annual
passes with these words stamped on
the face ''This pass is issued subse-
quent to April 5, 1887, and is subject
to the limitations of the interstate
law No passes of any description
will be issued to persons engaged II
interstate traffic. Local fares will re-
main unchanged at the rates adopted
the company at the beginning of the
present year. There will be no change
in the excursion arrangements exist
ing in past seasons, and we propose
to carry out all contracts made FOL
excursion business the coming sum
mer." Concerning through and loca
freight rates under the new tariff
Gov. Smith said: "The Central Yer
mont has adopted the classification
known as the official classification
which has been adopted by all the
trunk lines, including the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada, which viii
apply to through traffic; and we have
also adopted what is known as the
New England classification, which is
applicable to local traffic. The Grand
Trunk railway management propose to
fully conform to the interstate law,
and will work in harmony with the
Central Vermont" Gov. Smith said
that under the revised classification
freight rates would be decreased in
some directions and increased in
others.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

Drs. Starkey and Palens' advertise
ment of Compound Oxygen in this issue
OF this paper should be read by all of our
readers. The cures which the treatment
is e1ecting are SAID to be almost miracu-
Ious. In the few years since its discov-
cry they have treated in all parts of the
world upwards of fifty thousand patients.
thousands of these have given testimoni-
ais that they are cured, and large pro-
portion of the others report great benefit
from its use. Their offer to send 200
page book free, giving a history of the
treatment, with large number of testi-
monlals, is liberal one. Read the adj
yertisement and send for the book now.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

MANURE.-No farmer ever yet had
enough manure, and one may well ex-
cuse d lavish expenditure for fertilizers to
exc out the supply, meager enough as
compared with the hungry calls of the
land. But when a farmer pays out 800
for fertilizers he has nothing to show
for it but his odoriferous sacks and his
increased crops. This result is of itself
satisfactory as far as it goes, but it goes
only half far enough. The farmer who
spends 500 in bran, or cottonseed, or
linseed meal, and uses up his straw for
feeding with his hay, and grows roots,
and gathers the manure from all this
feeding, and makes compost with such
raw materials as he can procure, has big
heaps of this to look at for his 500 |:
but in addition he has some fat cattle or
sheep or butter to sell, which brings
back the 500 with interest, and the ma
nure is bonus thrown in as a reward
for his enterprise and industry and good
management. Truly the old saying
should be cherished as the leading art Gle
in the creed of every farmer.-Neao York
Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

Joseph Howard, Jr., well known for
the past 25 years as a brilliant and &C
ceptable writer, is preparing a life of
Henry Ward Beecher for publication by
Hubbard Brothers. AS Howard's father
was one of the three founders of Ply
mouth Church, and his most intimate
friend for more than forty years, with a
social intercourse at no time interrupted
and as Howard himself. by reason of his
public life. was brought into frequent
contact with Mr.. Beecher since his early
boyhood, it is obvious that he ought to
have, and probably has, material at his
hand which is accessible to no other con-
tempOraneous writer. The book is said
to be well under way, and will be ready
for the market early in May. Mr.. How
ard, by the way, was the author of the
comprehensive and interesting obituary
published IN the New York Herald the
day after Mr.. Beecher's death.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
Probate court-LamotIIe District.


The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office in Hyde
Park, during the week ending April
9th, A. D. 1887:
April 5.-W. D. Thomas estate, Nor
ristOwn; commissioners make report :;
administrator reports sale of real estate
and presents his account for settlement;
hearing set for April 23rd, 1887. SylVeS-
ter Whitcomb's estate, Hyde Park; ad-
ministrator asks for an extension of the
time for settling the estate; hearing set
for April 22nd, 1887.
April 7.-Betsey Stoddard's estate,
johnson; A. NJ. Bickfofd appointed
administrative.
April 8.-A. D. Pages estate, Cam
bridge; administrator settles his ac-
count.
April 9-Mary J. Blaney's estate,
Morristown; will proved and approved ;
Mary E. Roberts, eXecutriX.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
Estate of Phebe p. Camp.

The undersigned having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the district Of Lamoille
commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Phebe p. Camp, late of st. Charles
Illinois, deceased, and all claims exhibited
IN onset thereto, hereby give notice that we will
Z. ). Page in Hyde Park on the 18th day of April
and 2Sth day of Septr next, from O'Clock a. M
months from the 2Sth day of March A ID. 1857,
is the time limited by said Court for said credit
ors TO present their claims to us for examna-
ton and allowance.
Dated at Hyde Park, this 2Sth day of March
A. d. 1857 NJ. p. CHENEY,
W. p. SMILE,
'SWo Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
PATENTS

Obtained, and all PATENT BUSINESS s4S 5 attended
- 1RONJPTI Y and for MODERATE FEES.
Our office is opposite the U. 5. Patent once,
III we can obtain Patents in less time than those
remote from Washington.
natentability free of charge; and we make no
charge unless patent is secured.
we refer. here, to the Postmaster, the Supt OF
Money Order Div, and to officials of the U. s.
Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms and
references to actual clients in your own State or
County, write to .. a: SNOW q %, n n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
Estate of David Davis.
WILL PRESENTED.

State Of Vermont District of LamoiLle ss.-In
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park, within and
1887. 49, -
An Instrument, purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of David Davis, late of Stowe.
IN said dist. deceased, being presented by Yer
ordered by said Court, that all persons
concerned therein be notified to appear
at session thereof, to be held at the PRO
bate Office in Hyde Park in said district, on the
10th day of April A. ID. 1887, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon, and show cause, if any they have
against the Probate of said Will /; for which pur-
pose 1t Is further ordered, that this order be pub
llshed three weeks SUCCESSFULLY in the News and
Citizen, a newspaper printed at Morrisvile and
Hyde Park, in this State previous to said time of
ing. BY the Court-Attest
I9w3 II. S. PAGE. Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
Estate of Albert L. Koyes.

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
HON. Probate Court for the District OF LamOille,
commissioners, to receive, examine, and adjust
all claims and demands OF all persons against the
estate Of A. l.. NOyes, late of Hyde ark, in SAID
District, deceased, and all claims exhibited in
ONSET thereto, hereby give notice that we will
meet FOR the purposes aforesaid at the I.amoille
County Bank building in Hyde Park the 18th
day of May and Sth day of September next, from
one O'Clock p. Nj. until four o'clock /. M, each
of said days, and that six months from the 18th
day of March A. ID. 1887, is the time limited by
salu Court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Hyde Park, this Both day Of March, A.
ID. 1887. L. NJ. STRONG,
NJ p. CHENEY,
nh.-nio
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14

The election in Chicago resulted in a
big victory for the Republicans, who
elected Roche, their candidate for May
Gratis not having ticket in the field.
The boasts of the Socialists that they
would poll a phenomenalIy large vote
were idle; their strength was not half
what their leaders claimed they elected
only one Alderman. The Republicans
have carried Michigan, and the prohi-
bitory amendment was defeated. The
Republicans elected their candidate for
Mayor in Cincinnati, although the ma
jorIty at last accounts seemed likely to
be SMALL
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
1t Is So,

That we are daily guaranteeing Kemp
Sarsaparila to the people in this way
that after taking three fourths of bot
tie without relief. we will refund the
money. 1t is the greatest and best reme-
dy on the market tor cleansing the blood
and giving you a new lease of life. A
we'll known business man informs us that
he has gained eight pounds on two bot
ties of this sarsaparilla. Price 81. For
sale bv Geo. E. Woodward